New TV indoors and using XBMC

I can't express enough have satisfied and thrilled I am over the new TV. It is just incredible to have such a large screen and be able to view everything in HD (where possible). I have also configured my noisy desktop PC to become my temporary HTPC before I can manage to purchase more permanent.

XBMC is by far the most exciting technology I have used the past couple of years. The extendibility of the software is incredible. The plugins, scripts and skins. Currently I am using Aeon, which is most polished one available. To have a good overview of your movies and tv shows, its just a dream come true.

Origen S14V a enclosure for a future HTPC. To bad the price is way off budget...

Wating for my new TV!

Ordered a Sony KDL-46W5500 two weeks ago, and it is expected to arrive tomorrow. This will be a huge upgrade from my old SDTV. And playing Xbox 360 will now become a breeze compared...

Selling my Xbox 360!

In the weekend, I gather all my games and started writing down my list of games to sell. I consider the amount that I have to really be to much. Playing games on a SDTV doesn't  provide an interest in gaming, at all...

Convert a MySQL database to UTF-8

Just want to share this awesome article about the myths around converting a MySQL database to UTF-8. Also the article has a proper way to convert both the database and the tables inside.

Source: MySQL Performance Blog

Changing to Gangi.net

I plan on change my domainhost from NameCheap to Gandi. Need to start fresh, and NameCheap is starting to get old and ugly. Hopefully Gandi will change this view :)

Sorry for lacking posts, the interest in writing has been off the past few weeks. Kinda fell in a deep hole when it came to computers.

The future

The last week I have changed my focus from the past to the future. Even not the distance future, but more manageable time periods like a few weeks. I have also started to think more structure regarding my plans and priorities.

Later today I hope to order a fly ticket to USA. Visiting my best friend :D

Cleaning up the database application

Few posts back I talked about a project I were working on. Yesterday and today, I have been cleaning it up. Removing some old CSS and removed some formating not needed.

I plan on cleaning the CSS further. Because I have learned so much the past eight months, and today I can see back on the project and know what was done wrong and how to fix it.

Initially I hope to start on a rewrite. But the fact is that they haven't quite started to use it yet. And I really need to work on the service log feature. Only there were a way for me to work from home.

Maybe add the site to some external something...